::: ETA 18 hours :::- Orca 42 (Winds of Fate) approaching from the dark side of the moon and in route to Gaval - Mining World.- Cargo: 6 FW, 4 Battlesuits, and 4 Drones.- Wingman is a Shas'Vre Moonfire in a XV109.

(Sorry for delay in further fielding of the Orca in the field. Sometimes a Commander can get overwhelmed with XV109's, interstellar coups, and the Astra Militarum getting all this is our world.)

Battle report and pics:- Starting second with all of your forces in an Orca Candy shell is very nice.- The Orca taking Objectives is pretty sweet.- Starting on a Skyshield Pad is very helpful.- XV109 makes a great Orca Wingman

Nurgle forces moving towards the Tau landing site.

Orbital image:

Forces deployed out of Orca with XV109 pushing out as point.

XV8 and Firewarrior exit view.

Tau jaws closing on last of the Nurgle forces. Orca gracefully closing the distance and holding objectives.

What an awesome post! Battle reports that look like actual after action reports, photos, modeling -- everything! I wondered why I hadn't seen this post before and I wondered where it's been all my years on A.T.T. Then I noted you've been started this thread a few years back and so now I understand -- still awesome.

Was inspired to do a little translation work for you:

H’tsaya’shaii: ‘Winds of Fate’Shone’nan: Nightblade

Let me know if these work for you, and if not then I'll have another go at it.

I mean, i carries like 4 devilfish, it costs like 4.Even if it doesn't tank like 4, the sheer stupidity of units you cram into "one deployment" is stunning. you can fit your entire army into one "drop" if you play a crisis/stealth heavy list.Just hope they can't pluck it out of the sky before you make your landing

I mean, i carries like 4 devilfish, it costs like 4.Even if it doesn't tank like 4, the sheer stupidity of units you cram into "one deployment" is stunning. you can fit your entire army into one "drop" if you play a crisis/stealth heavy list.Just hope they can't pluck it out of the sky before you make your landing

If you want to compare it properly, It carries like 5.4 Devilfish, costs like 3.2 not counting weapons or 2.9 including weapons(the firepower 1 orca vs 3 DF would be 8 S5 shots(36" range) + Missile pod vs. 36 S5 shots). The worst thing about it is that it tanks only like one and a half of DF, with T8, 14W, 4+ save and hard to hit (compared to T7, 12W, 3+ save). Assuming they'll shoot with multidamage, high AP weapons, the +2W probably won't make a big difference, +1T only matters with S7 or S8 weapons, worse save, the hard to hit is just about the only thing that makes it rly more durable, you might not even get to 50% more durability than a DF with some weapon profiles...

I would say on 99% they won't do anything with points cost. What they might do in FAQ is lower the 4+ save(srsly, 4+?), give it more wounds or give it back the option to carry seekers (It has seekers modeled on hull for crying out loud). Wouldn't expect anything else...